Job Opportunities for User-Centered Professionals

Are you an innovative, self motivated experience designer? Can you effectively articulate even the most abstract ideas while striving to keep the lines of communication open throughout the product development process? Bring your ace conceptual problem-solving skills to a major provider of enterprise solutions with a rich legacy.

You must be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, keeping your knowledge of best practices and lean methodologies at the fore as you collaborate with project contributors, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams to create user-centered concepts and interactive solutions for web-based interfaces.

Your UX/UI design responsibilities will be significant and you’ll be working under the direction of the UX Design Management. The right designer will have the choice of working out of the company's offices in either Boulder, Colo. or Stamford, Conn.

Portfolio Requirements

Your portfolio should showcase your design and research skills, demonstrating a strong understanding of interface and experience design fundamentals. Be prepared to provide not just samples of polished deliverables, but also the story behind how you and your teams arrived at different iterations, how you pitched your ideas to stakeholders, and how you decided which way to move forward.

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Manage the relationship with digital agencies to provide interaction and visual direction

Interested in putting your interaction and visual design skills to the test, working for a major provider of enterprise solutions? This is a great opportunity to work on big projects for an influential company with a rich legacy.

You’ll be in charge of creating a variety of highly functional digital design solutions for enterprise and consumer products—mobile apps as well as web and desktop applications—working with a variety of internal stakeholders including UX designers and developers in a collaborative agile environment.

Seize the opportunity to partner with product teams from inception to delivery, hewing to a user-centered design process to support the overall design strategy. You’ll have the chance to communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale verbally and visually.

The right designer will be able to work from the company’s offices in either New York City, Boulder, Colo., or Stamford, Conn.

Portfolio Requirements

Your portfolio should showcase recent web app and application design work, demonstrating a strong understanding of design fundamentals. Be prepared to provide not just samples of polished deliverables, but also the story behind how you and your teams arrived at different iterations and how you decided which way to move forward.

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Senior UI Designer at Small Digital Agency

Does intense collaboration get you going? An expanding agency in Boulder is looking for an interface designer who can can relate to others and build relationships with clients to discover better solutions. The agency strives to provide service that can't be replaced, and their team will challenge you.

This is a great opportunity for driven mid-level designers to jump up and show your mettle. You'll be working with the top talent on the Front Range and the agency wants a hungry, curious, confident designer who will help them deliver unforgettable service.

You can look forward to a mountain bike park next door along with a great health plan, dental and vision insurance, company-matched 401K, 20 paid days off each year, and flexible work hours.

Portfolio Requirements

Your portfolio should show your ability to wield the tools of design while illustrating how they fit into your design process. The agency also wants to hear why you're a perfect fit for the job.

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Experience Strategist at Small Digital Agency

Is strategic management your thing? If you enjoy formulating and selling strategies internally and pitching ideas to clients, a digital agency in Boulder wants to hear from you. This is a great opportunity if you have a strong understanding of data, trends, and insights, and how they can be leveraged to improve the client’s bottom-line.

The agency needs an innovator and collaborator who will push the team's thinking, while taking the lead in creating personas, sketches, competitive analysis, strategic multi-year roadmaps, wireframes, and the like.

You can look forward to a mountain bike park next door along with a great health plan, dental and vision insurance, company-matched 401K, 20 paid days off each year, and flexible work hours.

Portfolio Requirements

Your portfolio should show your ability to identify revenue opportunities and apply research and design to maximize their potential. Give examples of the personas, sketches, competitive analysis, and wireframes you've employed, illustrating how they fit into your design process.

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Requirements:

5+ years managing products and go-to-marketing campaigns in the digital space

Eager to expand knowledge and dive into industry verticals

History leading teams in product creation, presenting, and visual communication

Ability to identify new revenue opportunities

Apply interaction design and research to business problems

Ability to tackle multiple projects

Excellent communication skills/outstanding ability to listen for needs and wants

User Experience Director at Global Employment Marketplace

Own the overall user experience at a global marketplace that connects professionals and employers based on skills and competencies. You'll be working closely with an internal team, guiding interaction and visual design efforts. This startup needs your help simplifying complex features—including online lectures, video chat, real-time dashboards, data visualizations, and a gamified learning process—weaving them all together into a compelling and cohesive experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for a mid-level designer looking to take their career to new heights with a company determined to transform recruiting and training markets worldwide by lowering costs and improving the quality of candidates. Duties include: crafting customer experiences with a focus on business relevance, creating visionary interactive prototypes, organizing the presentation of information in an engaging way, and pushing hard to make the service the most rewarding recruiting and training platform in the world. You'll need to take the company strategy and vision to heart, working in a collaborative, agile environment with a high degree of autonomy.

The position is located in beautiful Denver, Colo. After a 90-day trial period, you'll be eligible for generous stock options, medical and dental insurance, and unlimited vacation.

Portfolio Requirements

The ideal candidate will neeed a portfolio that demonstrates a passionate approach to solving complex problems and the ability to defend design decisions. This company is looking for a creative critical thinker who can solve difficult problems with a data-led approach to design.

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Requirements:

Serious interaction design skills, including the ability to translate your vision into sophisticated prototypes that lead to elegant designs

Web Information Architect at a Major Tech Powerhouse

We're looking for experienced IA specialists for a role where that specialization will truly be valued. This company creates and maintains an astonishing number of websites and web applications, each of which is independently growing in complexity from structure, content, and UX perspectives. This IA role is situated in the company's central web team, and partners with stakeholders, visual/UX designers, and engineers to plan and implement improvements to the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of the web properties.

This role is an opportunity to put the full IA toolkit to good use. The IA is involved in the upfront/generative stages of projects, working with stakeholders and other cross-discipline team members to define goals and requirements, devise and implement content strategies, and architect site structure and navigation. The role also involves translating and expressing business, user, IA, interface, and interaction requirements in the form of UX artifacts such as user journeys, scenarios, wireframes, prototypes, etc. As well, this role will be involved in evaluative processes such as user testing and analytics analysis to help plan and implement future improvements.

Because this role interacts with a large number of different web properties and stakeholders, and collaborates with cross-disciplinary teams, excellent communication and project management skills are essential. This role maintains a big-picture perspective and shepherds projects from start to finish, ensuring goals are met, UX quality is achieved, and technical constraints are accounted for.

This role is located in Mountain View (south San Francisco Bay Area). It comes through the company's "contingent worker" program, which means it's initially offered as a temporary employment position for a 6-month term. That said, this is one of those "get your foot in the door" sorts of opportunity at a company that most people would be very excited to get to visit, let alone work for. And the company foresees this role as been a longer-term need, so there's a strong chance the engagement will be extended, and the company can convert the role to a permanent, direct employment position at any time.

Portfolio Requirements

A strong, IA- and CS-focused portfolio is critical for this role, both in terms of demonstrating your experience but also in being an example of your ability to communicate effectively using UX design techniques and artifacts. The portfolio should showcase your ability to design and implement IA and CS across complex web properties. An IA portfolio will of course tend to be diagram-heavy, but don't forget to include examples of how you've used high- and low-fidelity prototyping techniques (sketching, wireframes, interactive prototypes, etc.) to communicate ideas and drive progress.

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Requirements:

At least four years (preferably more) of specialized IA experience

Expertise across a broader range of UX strategies, tactics, practices, and tools

Experience in content strategy at both planning and implementation levels

Mobile Product Design Lead at a Silicon Valley Startup

If you enjoy the intense, rapid, agile, and highly collaborative environment of new technology startups, or you're sick of being a small cog in a larger wheel and want to a key player in bringing a new product to market, this could be an exciting opportunity.

The company is a product startup in Los Altos, CA (in Silicon Valley, 45 minutes south of SF), and is still operating under the radar in the leadup to their first release. The company's founders have deep experience in the enterprise software and collaboration tools space, and have created this venture to address an unmet need in how mobile devices can facilitate communication and collaboration within enterprises in a way that reflects the standards of UX quality typical of consumer apps but rare in the enterprise space. The product's design will also diverge from enterprise norms by being centered on the user's pespective rather than just the business', recognizing that people don't stop being mobile users when the work day ends, and understanding that business and user goals can be simultaneously met through beautifully crafted product experiences.

We're seeking a seasoned product designer with a background in building consumer-oriented mobile apps to lead product design for the first release and beyond. Initially, everyone in the small, core team will be intensely focused on designing and building the v1.0 product, as well as with establishing a brand and marketing presence that reflect the company's commitment to high quality experiences. After the product and its marketing have been extablished, the dynamic of the company and this role will shift to address new challenges and opportunities, and may provide opportunities for growth and leadership.

Getting in on the ground floor of a new venture can be a great opportunity, but succeeding in an entrepreneurial setting requires a certain scrappiness, adaptability, dynamism, and resilience. One of the best things about working in an entrepreneurial setting is also one of the hardest things: how successful you can become depends almost entirely on how talented and effective you are. But the risk–reward balance is strongly favorable for this opportunity; the company has funding sufficient to offer competitive salaries and benefits with stability for an extended duration, the role comes with stock options.

If you've got the right skills and experience and think you're ready to work entrepreneurially, we encourage you to contact us so we can connect you with the company's founders to learn more about their vision for the product.

Portfolio Requirements

You will need to show examples of the products and projects you've worked on that demonstrate your experience in the key areas of concern for this role: mobile app design, consumer-oriented utility product design, and the design of new products. For this role, it's less important to showcase the range of UX artifacts and deliverables you're capable of producing, and much more important to demonstrate your capacity to use your design talents to make mobile apps engaging and useful. It'd be particularly helpful if you're able to provide links to finished products in the Apple App Store or Android app marketplace.

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Requirements:

At least 4-5 years of UX and product design experience. Because success in this role depends a lot on dynamism, drive, and other such personality traits, we welcome conversations with people across a broad range of levels of experience.

Demonstrated experience designing and completing mobile apps for iOS and/or Android. This is a mandatory requirement, and it must be mobile apps and not just mobile sites or mobile-optimized web applications.

Proven ability to create engaging, useful, and elegantly designed app experiences for the consumer sensibility. In other words, your experience should demonstrate savviness in joining utility, usability, user-centricity, and desirability in app experience

Mastery of a broad range of techniques, tools, and practices from the UX toolkit.

Ability to excel and deliver in the face of change and the unknown in a fast-paced, agile, and highly collaborative environment.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

Refined aesthetic sense and visual design skills that are applicable to product, brand, and marketing design.

Experience in startup environments and/or building products totally from scratch.

Well developed interpersonal, communication, and design communication skills and the ability to shift naturally between supportive, collaborative, and leadership roles.

ufficient technical knowledge to understand engineering issues and constraints, and proven deftness in closely collaborating with technical and engineering professionals.

Chief Designer for a Mobile Enterprise Product Startup (Funded)

If you enjoy the intense, rapid, agile, and highly collaborative environment of new technology startups, or you're sick of being a small cog in a larger wheel and want to a key player in something in which you've got strong ownership, this could be an exciting opportunity.

The company is a brand new, still under-the-radar, mobile product startup in Los Altos, CA (in Silicon Valley, 45 minutes south of SF). The company's founders have deep experience in the enterprise software and collaboration tools space, and have created this venture to address an unmet need in how mobile devices can facilitate communication and collaboration within enterprises in a way that reflects the standards of UX quality typical of consumer apps but rare in the enterprise space. The product's design will also diverge from enterprise norms by being centered on the user's pespective rather than just the business', recognizing that people don't stop being mobile users when the work day ends, and understanding that business and user goals can be simultaneously met through beautifully crafted product experiences.

We're seeking a seasoned UX, product, mobile, and marketing designer to head up all of the company's design efforts and be part of the core product, marketing, and leadership team. This being a startup, the priorities, scope, and duties of the Chief Designer role will be subject to constant change as the company reacts to opportunities, challenges, and growth. Initially, everyone on the small, core team will be intensely focused on designing and building the v1.0 product, as well as with establishing a brand and marketing presence that reflect the company's commitment to high quality experiences. The dynamic will shift after the initial release, and as additional designers join the team they will work under the Chief Designer's direction.

The company has obtained funding sufficient to offer employees stability by ensuring it can operate without revenue for an extended duration, and the career and financial upside to being a core team member with stock options is potentially tremendous, as are the learning and growth opportunities. As well, the salary and benefits for this role are strongly competitive, so this opportunity doesn't require sacrifice, and the downside potential is about the same as any non-startup job. But getting in on the ground floor isn't without its risks, and succeeding in an entrepreneurial setting requires a certain scrappiness, adaptability, dynamism, and resilience that not many people possess. The long term value and stability of this role are not guaranteed; the value potential depends entirely on how successful the company becomes, which in turn relies heavily on the contributions of a successful Chief Designer. One of the best things about working in an entrepreneurial setting is also one of the hardest things: how successful you can become depends almost entirely on how talented and effective you are.

We realize it's unusual for a job posting to portray the challenges and risks of an opportunity and not just its selling points. In order to succeed, the new Chief Designer must be clear-eyed and realistic while also optimistic, and likewise the company's success hinges on finding the right person who's ready for the challenge and excited for the potential.

The only way to discover whether the product and opportunity are exciting to you is to talk to the company's founders. So if you've got the right skills and experience, think you're ready to work entrepreneurially, and are even a little curious, we encourage you to contact us to begin that process. The founders are very eager to meet their new design partner.

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Requirements:

At least 4-5 years of UX, product, and marketing design experience. Because success in this role depends as much on dynamism, drive, and other such qualities of personality as it does on experience, the founders are interested in talking to people with br

UX Lead for Strategic Concepts at a Major Tech-Driven Business

This is one of the most interesting roles we’ve had the privilege of representing. The role is at one of the country’s innovative, tech-driven companies with huge breadth, reach, and capabilities. It’s a senior-level position on the design/technical ladder, and the company is seeking candidates who come from senior positions (lead and director-level). That said, this is also a very hands-on UX research and design role focused on high-value, stealth projects, and has little of the team leadership and account management responsibilities ordinarily associated with lead- or director-level roles. The projects this role will focus on will be exclusively for mobile, tablets, and other connected devices.

So if you’re an “intrapreneurial” UX lead looking to directly add significant value to a company’s strategic technology initiatives, this can be an exciting opportunity to roll up your sleeves and truly lead UX in practice across platforms and through the whole spectrum of UX, from research, to experience architecture, to interaction design, to visual design, and then through to testing, prototyping, shipping. Your stakeholders will be high-level executives all the way up to the company’s well-known CEO, so the ability to use design to communicate and generate buy-in will also be essential.

The role is located in Seattle, Washington. Relocation assistance is available to well qualified candidates.

This is a unique and challenging opportunity for someone who wants to be a full-spectrum UXer doing tactical work to drive real strategic value. On a typical project, you would be the sole UX and visual designer, spearheading mobile-centric projects in concert with cross-functional teams. You will generally own and follow a product or tool as it gets extended to new platforms and devices, so you’ll find yourself managing multiple priorities and product launches.

A considerable amount of customer insight will be available from the market research team, but you will need to supplement that by performing your own user research to help drive design decisions and generate buy-in. During the design process, you’ll have the opportunity to use virtually every tool from the UX toolkit to iterate on the product design through sketching, wireframing, prototypes, graphic comps, etc.

Strong written, verbal, and design communication skills will be critical as you keep the cross-functional teams and various stakeholder interests up to speed and bought-in on the progress of the products you’re designing.

Note: the title given for this role in this description is not the actual title of the role, but is instead one we believe more accurately describes the position and will help ensure the right people will find this opportunity.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used interaction design techniques and artifacts (e.g., wireframes, personas, experience maps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects, and also how you’ve performed and used a range of user research techniques to inform product design. The strength of the visual design in your portfolio will also be very important since you’ll often be the sole designer on a project, so be sure you showcase your aesthetic strengths in the portfolio materials and perhaps also the design of the portfolio itself. The company will also be interested in how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems using design thinking and communication, and to use those same capabilities to communicate and build consensus with team members and stakeholders. You should also be able to demonstrate how you've exercised leadership and vision over product strategy, ideation, research, design, and implementation.

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Requirements:

Senior- or director-level experience as a user experience designer and researcher

Senior Web Designer/Developer for a Large Travel Site

This role is located in Amsterdam, and the company welcomes applicants from all over the world. Relocation and visa assistance, as well as other perks, are available for people who want to spend some time living and working in Europe.

There are multiple roles available for UX-minded hybrid senior web designers/developers who can create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes using visual design tools then translate those designs into code in HTML5, CSS, and some JavaScript. The company maintains one of the world's leading travel and accommodation websites, serving millions of customers all over the world. This role leads collaboration across teams and disciplines in an agile environment with developers, product owners, designers, researchers, and copywriters to take a data-driven approach to designing and implementing improvements to the product UX.

The senior designer will be a key part of the idea generation process, working in a small startup-like group which takes full ownership of their part of the company's platform. The senior designer works with developers, product owners, copywriters and user researchers to conceive, analyse, code & test ideas. The senior designer will be expected to work across these small teams with designers to create joined-up, delightful user experiences across the entire platform.

Portfolio Requirements

A strong web design portfolio demonstrating clear understanding of UI and interaction design principles, both graphical and technical, will be essential. Examples of typical web/UX design deliverables such as wireframes, comps/mockups, and other visual design assets should be included. This company understands that design is about problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used design techniques and artifacts to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. Visual appeal is very important, but this company will also be interested in how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems using design thinking and communication, and to apply user-centered design principles and practices. You should also be able to demonstrate a high degree of skill in translating designs into working web interfaces in HTML5 and CSS. Technical work samples, example projects, and/or a link to your work on GitHub will be important to demonstrate your coding chops.

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Visual Designer for a Top-Rated Saas Product Company

This role is for a Visual Designer with proven visual design for applications and digital product experience.

This opportunity is at an established product startup (in Series D funding). The product is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that supports a key business workflow ranging from simple to complex, as well as certain security and collaboration functions.

The company is looking for a seasoned Visual Designer to join them in their San Francisco offices to help evolve their product and bring world-class user experiences to customers. This role will report to the Art Director and work on a variety of projects for the company's website, product, or mobile ecosystem. The Visual Designer will be expected to collaborate on conception of designs as well as the tactical aspects of creating visual design artifacts. The Visual Designer will collaborate with the UX team and Art Direction to ensure the visual designs accomplishes the needs of the product and users. The Visual Designer will also work with the engineering team to ensure that the designs are implemented correctly. This role works independently on smaller projects, typically with a fine attention to visual details.

This is a great opportunity for people who enjoy working in innovative, in-house product environments on products that transform the way people work, live, and connect. The company offers competitive salary, stock options, and benefits.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving through visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used visual design techniques and artifacts (e.g., layouts, palettes, visual comps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. This company will be more concerned with how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems and apply user-centered design principles and practices through visual design and aesthetics.

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UX & Interaction Designer at a Major Technology Powerhouse

This role is for an interaction design-oriented UXer at one of the world's preeminent technology companies, designing interfaces that solve complex interactions with elegance and simplicity. Candidates for this role should have a strong interest in technology and know how to work alongside engineers and product managers, and need to be able to tell compelling stories about users and products to support their work.

This is a 3-month contract opportunity with the possibility of contract extensions or being hired full-time, and is located in Mountain View in the San Francisco Bay area. If you're excited about the job description but nervous about it being short-term, please contact us anyway; the company is motivated to find the right person so there may be leeway on the specifics if you impress them enough.

Portfolio Requirements

A strong portfolio is absolutely critical for this role, both in terms of demonstrating your experience but also in being an example of your ability to create a compelling design presentation. The portfolio must showcase your experience in UX and interaction design, particularly where simplicity and ease of use were a major concern. The company would like to see a diversity of projects, but be careful that your portfolio doesn't get scattered or overly long—focus on curation and quality in choosing a solid collection of outcomes and design intermediaries and deliverables (especially flows, mockups, and prototypes), and be sure the portfolio demonstrates the design and thought process behind each image.

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Requirements:

Fluency in best practices for user-centered interface and interaction design

A strong portfolio or work samples showcasing UX prowess, creativity, and depth of thought

A clean design aesthetic, and a natural propensity towards simplification over complication

In-House Senior UX Researcher for a Top-Rated SaaS Product Startup

This opportunity is at a well-funded, established product startup. The product is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that supports a key business workflow ranging from simple to complex, as well as certain security and collaboration functions.

The Senior UX Researcher establishes the strategy, goals, techniques, and approaches for the research, then facilitates and executes it, followed by presenting the findings to the design team, business owners, and other stakeholders to help inform user-centered design decisions. As a true research specialist, this person must be able to abandon preconceptions and hypotheses to allow research data to drive decisions and interpretations.

The Senior UX Researcher is a key contributor not only to the successful execution of research, but also to the value of the products the research supports. Research performed by the Senior UX Researcher will be both generative and evaluative, which puts this role near the center of all aspects of creating and improving the company's products and web properties. The person filling this role will have opportunities to work on wide-ranging products including websites, web applications, and mobile applications, and to employ a broad set of research practices such as ethnographic and field research, usability testing, user acceptance testing, prototype testing, A/B and multivariate tests, analytics, and others.

A successful Senior UX Researcher must be a strategic thinker and contributor, have strong depth and breadth of research practice experience, and be an effective evangelist for UX and user research.

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Requirements:

3-5+ years in applied product and UX research and testing

Experience with a broad toolkit of qualitative and quantitative research techniques and methods

Ability to organize and facilitate various forms of contextual (in situ), remote, lab, and group inquiries

Skilled at translating research data into materials that are easy for design and product teams to consume, and a strong ability to communicate an understanding of research results to the rest of the team and company

Ability to collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams and to inspire confidence in and support for user research practices

An up-to-date understanding of research techniques and methods, and an ongoing commitment to keep one's skills and knowledge fresh and leading-edge

Ability to work in fast-paced, agile environments, juggling multiple priorities and deliverables

Solid knowledge of HCI, experimental design, research planning, observational and field methods, and data analysis

Desirable Skills & Experience:

Advanced degree in a directly related field of study such as experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, ethnography, human factors, HCI, etc.

Demonstrated experience using research as a driver of strategic value to a company and using it to build support among stakeholders and cross-disciplinary team members

Strong competency with layout and graphic design tools such as Adobe Illustrator to be able to create well-packaged, compelling deliverables based on research results

Prior experience working on products or for companies that focus on data security (e.g., banking) and/or key business processes

This opportunity is at an established product startup (in Series D funding). The product is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that supports a key business workflow ranging from simple to complex, as well as certain security and collaboration functions.

The company is looking for a seasoned Mobile User Experience Lead to join them in their San Francisco offices to help evolve their product and bring world-class user experiences to customers. This role will report to the Director of User Experience and be responsible for the user experience of the company’s mobile products. This role will drive mobile updates and added features and will assess the current mobile products to identifying areas of improvement. There is also a strategic component to this role that requires the Lead to view the mobile products in a big-picture context and propose potentially challenging solutions. The Mobile User Experience Lead works with partners in product management, visual design, development, and elsewhere across the organization to envision and execute on new and improved experiences.

This is a great opportunity for people who enjoy working in innovative, in-house product environments on products that transform the way people work, live, and connect. The company offers competitive salary, stock options, and benefits.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing complex mobile experiences for consumer-facing products. Candidates must possess strong communication abilities in order to ensure findings, suggestions, and mobile design concepts are prioritized in the product and development process.

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Requirements:

True UX expert, able to go beyond visual design to lead product experience

Hybrid Web Designer/Developer for a Large Travel Site

This role is located in Amsterdam, and the company welcomes applicants from all over the world. Relocation and visa assistance, as well as other perks, are available for people who want to spend some time living and working in Europe.

There are multiple roles available for UX-minded hybrid web designers/developers who can create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes using visual design tools then translate those designs into code in HTML5, CSS, and some JavaScript. The company maintains one of the world's leading travel and accommodation websites, serving millions of customers all over the world. This role works in an agile, collaborative environment alongside developers, product owners, designers, researchers, and copywriters to take a data-driven approach to designing and implementing improvements to the product UX.

Portfolio Requirements

A strong web design portfolio demonstrating clear understanding of UI and interaction design principles, both graphical and technical, will be essential. Examples of typical web/UX design deliverables such as wireframes, comps/mockups, and other visual design assets should be included. This company understands that design is about problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used design techniques and artifacts to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. Visual appeal is very important, but this company will also be interested in how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems using design thinking and communication, and to apply user-centered design principles and practices. You should also be able to demonstrate a high degree of skill in translating designs into working web interfaces in HTML5 and CSS. Technical work samples, example projects, and/or a link to your work on GitHub will be important to demonstrate your coding chops.

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This role is for a Senior Interaction Designer with proven product experience.

This opportunity is at an established product startup (in Series D funding). The product is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that supports a key business workflow ranging from simple to complex, as well as certain security and collaboration functions.

The company is looking for a seasoned Interaction Designer to join them in their San Francisco offices to help evolve their product and bring world-class user experiences to customers. This role will report to the Director of User Experience and work on a variety of projects for the company's website, product, or mobile ecosystem. The Interaction Designer works independently on smaller projects, typically with a fine attention to interaction details.

This is a great opportunity for people who enjoy working in innovative, in-house product environments on products that transform the way people work, live, and connect. The company offers competitive salary, stock options, and benefits.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used interaction design techniques and artifacts (e.g., wireframes, sketches, experience maps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. This company will be more concerned with how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems and apply user-centered design principles and practices. Visual design and aesthetics are still important, but people in this role are partnered with visual designers so the Interaction Designer role may tend to be more non-visual. Make sure to include examples of your mobile product experience in your portfolio.

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Requirements:

Prior experience working on products, preferably ones with mobile apps or products with mobile components

User Experience Designer for a UX-Driven Software Services Agency

This is an excellent opportunity for UX professionals who want to be in the context of a creative agency working on sexy, UX-centered projects for well-known brands. This agency's history is in the marriage of design and technology, and its UX roles are full-fledged and challenging ones for practitioners with deep experience in the field. UX at this company is truly UX, and not just "campaign plus" or solely web-oriented. The company is devoted to partnering with enterprise clients on strategy, ethnographic design research, design and full technological implementation of custom software (all in-house)—generally Web, mobile, tablet and desktop applications.

The company is seeking a User Experience Designer who is capable of the design and development of engaging experiences, and enjoys working in a setting that requires strong problem-solving skills, independent self-direction, and an aptitude for collaboration and communication. This role requires excellent analytical and creative capabilities to work fast-paced, agile design engagements.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used interaction design techniques and artifacts (e.g., wireframes, personas, experience maps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. While visual appeal is still very important, this company will be most interested in how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems using design thinking and communication, and to apply user-centered design principles and practices. You should also be able to demonstrate how you've exercised leadership and vision over product strategy, ideation, research, design, and implementation.

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Lead Experience Architect for a UX-Driven Software Services Agency (Denver)

Note: this opportunity is available primarily in Denver CO, Rochester NY, San Francisco CA, and Seattle WA, but may be available in other locations in North America.

This is an excellent opportunity for UX professionals who want to be in the context of a creative agency working on sexy, UX-centered projects for well-known brands. This agency's history is in the marriage of design and technology, and its UX roles are full-fledged and challenging ones for practitioners with deep experience in the field. UX at this company is truly UX, and not just "campaign plus" or solely web-oriented. The company is devoted to partnering with enterprise clients on strategy, ethnographic design research, design and full technological implementation of custom software (all in-house)—generally Web, mobile, tablet and desktop applications.

In this environment, a lead experience architect (LXA) is responsible for facilitating, generating and executing great user experiences for clients and their end-users. Acting as a coach, mentor and lead for both internal teams as well as an advocate for clients' needs, a lead experience architect is a true veteran of human-centered design, interaction design and design research, and is still in love with getting their hands dirty.

The person in this role will act as the lead user experience designer on major client engagements, actively manage design team execution, serve as key point of contact for the client, envision incredible user experiences and lead productive, and facilitate creative sessions amongst internal/external stakeholders. This requires experience as a user experience architect with strong interests and capabilities in the design and development of engaging user experiences. The ideal candidate thrives in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, and has an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate should also have extensive experience in fast-paced and innovative development environments. A thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies is a must.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used interaction design techniques and artifacts (e.g., wireframes, personas, experience maps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. While visual appeal is still very important, this company will be most interested in how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems using design thinking and communication, and to apply user-centered design principles and practices. You should also be able to demonstrate how you've exercised leadership and vision over product strategy, ideation, research, design, and implementation.

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Requirements:

Five or more years of user experience design experience for software, Web applications, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices

This opportunity is at an established product startup (in Series D funding). The product is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that supports a key business workflow ranging from simple to complex, as well as certain security and collaboration functions.

The company is looking for a seasoned User Experience Lead to join them in their San Francisco offices to help evolve their product and bring world-class user experiences to customers. This role will report to the Director of User Experience and be responsible for the user experience of a part of the company's website, product, or mobile ecosystem. The User Experience Lead works with partners in product management, visual design, development, and elsewhere across the organization to envision and execute on new and improved experiences.

This is a great opportunity for people who enjoy working in innovative, in-house product environments on products that transform the way people work, live, and connect. The company offers competitive salary, stock options, and benefits.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used research and interaction design techniques and artifacts (e.g., wireframes, personas, experience maps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects. This company will be more concerned with how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to solve problems and apply user-centered design principles and practices. Visual design and aesthetics are still important, but people in this role are partnered with visual designers so the UX role may tend to be more non-visual. The company is also interested in seeing demonstrations of your experience and interest in performing user research and translating that into communication artifacts.

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Requirements:

True UX expert, able to go beyond visual design to lead product experience

Experience and interest in performing user research and using the results to engender empathy for users in the rest of the team

Ability to lead cross-functional teams from ideation to design to execution

Strong communication and collaboration skills with fluency in UX, business, and technology, and an ability to present complex ideas in understandable ways

UX is a true passion, not just a job

Key Functions & Deliverables:

Define goals and requirements in collaboration with product managers and stakeholders

Perform user research and investigate analytics data to develop and understanding of user needs and contexts

Create, evaluate, and refine ideas and concepts in a collaborative setting

Design experiences that are both functional and elegant

Build consensus around decisions and designs using wireframes, prototypes, and other UX artifacts

Work in tandem with engineers and visual designers in the context of agile iterative processes

Ensure the highest quality output through testing and continuous collaboration

Help the UX team define best practices for processes, deliverables, etc.

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